Salman Rushdie Quotes

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

I think the thing that I love the most about working in the digital cinema is that you're only limited in your cinematic technique by your imagination - you're not restricted by the physical laws of nature. You don't have to worry about physically moving a 50lb camera through space, or worry about shadows and rigging.

Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.

The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.

I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it's your mind that allows the words to come to life.

You can do anything when it's not real.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.